Applying ACIM in Your Daily Life

The Pathways of Light
ACIM Practitioner Training Program includes 24 courses which focus on topics such
as forgiveness, wellness and living in the world while waking up. The courses
are available as self-study or with a Mind Healing Partner to help you
understand and apply A Course in Miracles in your everyday life.

We don’t go Home alone. We heal together as we join with our brother for the
purpose of healing. The more we practice opening up to the Holy Spirit joined with
our brother, the stronger our connection becomes.

A Course in Miracles Practitioner Training

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901: Introduction to Miracles Practice Details

A Course in Miracles is all about forming and reinforcing the practice of receiving and extending miracles. This is the journey Home. This is the core of our reawakening to the strength and peace of God that has never left us. We have just temporarily covered It up by putting our faith in the false ideas of believing in bodies. Accepting the miracle, which is the correction of our perception, comes with our willingness to receive the truth of our true Identity in God as universal, undivided Love. This means being willing to let go of the idea that we are separate from the oneness of God. The miracle is what we receive in our mind as we let our belief in weakness, limitation and separation be replaced by our eternal reality as Love.

This course is all about allowing ourselves to form and reinforce the daily practice of receiving and extending miracles. With the Holy Spirit, we allow ourselves to see the false ideas for what they are and allow Him to bring us the vision of true perception. In forming this daily miracles practice, we allow our confused minds to be healed of our belief in weakness, limitation and darkness. We are persistent and diligent in continuing and strengthening this daily miracles practice. We want to return Home and we have the means to do it.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: "Identifying with the Light of God Within" and "Miracles Come to the Quiet Mind." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "Receiving Miracles from Holy Spirit," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "God is the Light in which I see," and "Miracles Check-in."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 901 Participants

It was very helpful to study one theme in depth, drawing upon ideas from different parts of ACIM and seeing a common thread that ties them together. The passages in the study material were very helpful and beautifully conveyed ACIM's core principles in an easier to understand language. The concrete guidelines for how to connect with the Holy Spirit were especially helpful. It was truly life changing!

Now I can laugh with Holy Spirit at the stories I made up about being separate from God, separate from Love. I feel more willing to turn any discomfort or lack of peace over to the Holy Spirit to receive His "happy dream" in exchange. As we moved more deeply into the material, I felt a great sense of joy, hope and peace that I can open to the help of the Holy Spirit.

This course helped me see more clearly where I have obstacles or blocks that keep miracles from my awareness and what it would mean to remove them. I experienced an opening in my mind where Holy Spirit leads me to the miracle of joining with the One Mind..

The reading material and interaction with my Mind Healing Partner brought a new level of awareness to me. It gave me valuable tools I can refer back to on a regular basis whenever I begin to experience illusions of fear and separation.

I feel that I received a deep healing. It was very profound in helping me to understand ACIM at a very deep level. Working through the course, Holy Spirit gave me a gift of deep peace.

902: Remembering to Choose Peace Details

Feelings of depression, loss, impatience, anxiety, anger or the slightest irritation are symptoms of lack of peace. When this happens, we are confusing illusion with truth. Because we have bought into the idea of separation and individuality, we need the Holy Spirit to reinterpret our misperceptions and return us to the experience of peace and joy.

In order to choose peace, it is important to practice being in peace so it is easier to recognize when we are not in peace. As you strengthen your motivation to choose peace, you remember that peace is your real home and that thoughts of conflict, limitation and strife do not come from your real Self. As you are more open to correction, the obstacles to peace are easier to flow across. You stop making the body real and realize that you are your brother. Your fear of Love subsides and you accept the peace and joy of God by extending it to your brothers.

Topics include:
What am I choosing, peace or conflict? • Understanding what is behind resistance to peace • Peace and understanding go together • Entering into the peace of God • Offering peace to everyone.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: "Returning to the Peace of God" and "Solving Problems with the Peace of God." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "I Remember to Choose Peace," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "I Am the Home of Peace," and "Holy Spirit, I Cannot Do This Alone."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 902 Participants

This course helped me understand the resistance to peace and gave me an awareness of why I don't choose peace. It led me to a deep commitment to tuning into peace and extending it out to others..

The course helped me remember that total peace is only a thought away. It reminded me that, because I am in charge of my thoughts, I can constantly return to the peaceful, safe, quiet place where Spirit patiently waits for my return. I was very impressed with the content of the material and how it was related to the ACIM Text and Workbook lessons.

Wow! I found with great gratitude that peace is not boring, it is exciting. As I return to peace, my natural Home, I have the experience of being everything and having everything.

903: Gratitude for God’s Gifts Details

Being in a place of gratitude brings you healing and happiness. It helps you remember your wholeness. This course focuses on one of the most powerful avenues of healing there is — the power of gratitude. Because you get what you focus on, counting your blessings opens the door to more blessings. Gratitude is the result of remembering the truth about yourself and others — seeing past the form to the eternal Spirit in each person. God has given us All That Is. Returning to this truth heals our mind and experience of life.

Practicing gratitude accelerates your awakening and enables the peace, joy and Love of God to return to your awareness. You will learn to see both love and calls for love from the Holy Spirit's perspective. You will practice replacing guilt with acceptance and gratitude. God has given us His total and universal Love. As you learn to extend Love as God does, your whole perspective changes and your experience of life turns to one of joy, peace and deep inner gratitude.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: "Appreciating Your True Identity in God" and "In Gratitude I Heal." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "In Gratitude I Heal," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "I Gratefully Accept My Inheritance," and "I Am Grateful to My Brother."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 903 Participants

This was a very uplifting and joyful experience. It helped me remember the power of gratitude to lift me out of fear or perception of loss and lead me to joy. It also helped me realize that through forgiveness I open the door to love, gratitude, joy and peace. The prayer of gratitude became a rededication to accept God's Love and to accept myself as I was created, one Self in God.

Many things have surfaced for me by concentrating on gratefulness. It made me aware of my blessings and took my mind off the imagined hurts and lacks. To look for the good and find it has opened my heart to forgiveness.

This was a gentle opening to the powerful tool of gratitude interspersed with the invitation to value what is real — Love. As I maintain an attitude of gratitude, my world will reflect the Love within extending outward. It clarified for me how rejecting love and valuing specialness plays out.

This program was beautiful! It brought my focus back to God. Oh, how I needed to return to the inner truth of Spirit. Now I have a beautiful prayer I can use to help get into a space of communion with Spirit.

904: Putting God First Details

You will explore what it really means to put God first in your life — what it means and feels like to have a close relationship with God. How can you experience that in your life? What would it look like in your day-to-day interactions? In this course, you will practice being vigilant only for God.

You will practice quieting and opening your mind to the helpful insight of your Inner Teacher. By doing this, you will remove the barriers to the experience of your total safety in God. You will experience that, rather than being a sacrifice, putting God first is the means for achieving lasting happiness, because God wills only happiness for you.

Topics include: Healing belief in unworthiness • Accepting God's decision about you • Remembering you are part of God, Who is all power • Putting no other gods before Him • Recognizing the signals to denying God • Allowing yourself to be carried • Taking your upsets to God's Love • Rising above the battle ground to see the Love • Devoting time to God.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: "Opening to God's Universal Love" and "Deciding with God, Not Against God." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "I Am Willing to Put God First," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "I Put God First," and "Taking My Upsets to God's Love."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 904 Participants

I experienced a deeper letting go — a feeling of deeper commitment to listen and follow the lead of Spirit and to put love first daily. This program helped me look at perceived problems with the awareness of love so I could become aware of the softness, worth and abundance that are my true inheritance. The most valuable thing I learned was to affirm the Source of Love in me.

This course was profoundly deep and healing. It was wonderful in a group setting, and I am also looking forward to going deeper with this material on my own. I learned what to look for as signs that I am into my ego. I was also reminded of the importance to myself and everyone else of putting God first in my life.

I have been a student of A Course in Miracles for years and I found this course to be very refreshing, inspirational and concise. It has reopened my eyes. It reminded me to turn all things in my life to God because He will handle it better than I could. The words in ACIM were familiar, but this course clarified them and went more in depth. The sharing with a Mind Healing Partner was healing and deeply spiritual. What I learned was priceless.

This course was an excellent, wonderful, healing experience! It was very helpful learning to begin to accept God as the 'driver' of my car. I am learning how I deny God and therefore put roadblocks in my own path toward serenity.

905: Special Relationships vs. Holy Relationships Details

Specialness means maintaining a separate image. Holiness means maintaining an awareness of wholeness — one, all-inclusive whole. A special relationship focuses on differences, which keeps separation in place. A holy relationship looks past differences and sees only oneness. In order to heal our relationships, we need to change our focus from seeing differences to seeing past the mask of separation to the one Light of God that is real.

Topics include: Returning fantasies of specialness to the truth • The treachery of specialness and the special love relationship • Seeing the real purpose behind special love • The Holy Relationship • We are joined in one Mind • Holiness = awareness of Oneness • Letting relationships become a lesson in changeless Love • Letting your mind be host to the holy instant • Your one real relationship is with God • Remembering the one real goal of all relationships • Fulfilling the Will of God in the holy encounter • Daily practice in seeing the Christ in all.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: "Complete Release Through Restoration of the Sonship" and "From Specialness to Holiness." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "I Take All My Relationships to the Holy Spirit," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "Don't Believe It," and "I See the Holiness in Myself and My Brother."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 905 Participants

This is the most comprehensive look at what the Course says about special and holy relationships I have seen. The broad selection of passages from ACIM that this course brought together has had a profound effect on my understanding of the price of specialness and its destructive effects on relationships. I have a renewed determination to be vigilant for the ways that I seek for specialness and turn them over to the Holy Spirit for healing.

It was truly transforming. For many years I have been resistant to letting go of specialness, believing that my happiness would not be complete without that "one special person in my life." This program has given me a new perspective on this issue. I have made a commitment to take all thoughts, ideas and feeling of specialness to the Holy Spirit for healing and release.

This course really helped me apply the Course consistently in my daily living. I am practicing seeing the perfection rather than paying attention to what my body's eyes see. I truly enjoyed the experience of this course.

906: Healing Through Forgiveness Details

Do you desire peace instead of endless strife and misery and pain? Forgiveness brings you an unlimited supply of peace, joy and happiness. Forgiveness heals all guilt, fear and suffering. Forgiveness is the means to let go of the illusion of separation and return Home. Forgiveness is willingness to become as a little child and be taught by the One Who knows.

Because forgiveness is so central to the teaching of the Course, you will give forgiveness the attention it deserves. You want to be happy. You want to be aware of the peace and love of God. With practice in following Spirit's lead, you will see how you can bring the power of forgiveness to all areas of your life. The outcome of forgiveness brings the remembrance of Heaven.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: "Forgiveness — Looking Beyond Illusion" and "Forgiveness Is Giving the Body a New Purpose." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "Forgiveness Prayer," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "Forgiveness — Healing Belief in Guilt," and "Forgiveness — Sharing One Self."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 906 Participants

I gained a greater awareness and willingness to let my mind be changed about what I think I am. I am now aware that all separation/forgiveness issues revolve around God, not my apparent bodily brother or sister.

I knew forgiveness was important and necessary. But now I'm aware of how simple it is. Simply allow everything that is not love to fall away. All forgiveness truly is forgiveness of myself and my illusions because my mind is the cause and only my mind can be returned to oneness. It is easy, gentle and joyful.

907: The Power of Decision — Cause and Effect Details

It is very helpful to understand how powerful your mind is. In every instant you are choosing your experience with the thoughts you hold in your mind. In every instant you are deciding what and where you think you are. You are making these decisions either with the Holy Spirit or ego. The ego chooses to see separation and the Holy Spirit always sees Love and oneness. Whose hand do you choose to hold? If you choose to buy into ego thoughts, you will experience limitation, lack, fear and guilt. If you choose with Holy Spirit, you will experience the joy of peace, safety and seeing only innocence.

Topics include: Sickness is trying to dethrone the Father • As you decide so will you see • From insane wishes comes an insane world • Laying aside the ego's voice to hear the truth • Acknowledging the limitless power of Love • Giving all decisions to the Voice for God • How to choose • Our only choice is between the real and the unreal • Practicing the happy habit of choosing with Holy Spirit.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: "Deciding to Be Aware of the Eternal" and "Deciding with God." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "Deciding with God," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "Relinquishing My Projections," and "Giving Judgment to the Holy Spirit."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 907 Participants

This is a comprehensive synthesis of many passages in ACIM. It makes it explicitly clear that everything I experience is the effect of my decision. This is tremendously empowering because it means I have the power to change my experience by changing what I value or want to be real. I now see that the way to change my experience is to be vigilant to make all my decisions with the Holy Spirit as my Guide. I am motivated to pay more attention to who I am choosing as my guide in every moment. I want the peace that choosing Holy Spirit brings.

This course was quite an experience. I feel changed as a result of participating in it. it goes far beyond intellectual knowledge to an experience of A Course in Miracles.

This course helped me have more willingness to give all decisions to the Holy Spirit. I am recognizing that every moment I am making a decision. There is only one decision to make: Choose the Holy Spirit always, continually, so that I may do God's Will and God's Will only. This is the decision for happiness!

I learned that fear is resistance to peace. Trying to solve problems on my own only reinforces the problems and makes it seem unsolvable. The Holy Spirit has the solution to all my problems. He will gladly take them when I offer them to Him. In return, He gives me the gift of peace and joy.

908: Abundance Awareness Details

This ACIM Practitioner course is for students of A Course in Miracles who want to understand and experience the principles of abundance that the Course presents. You will learn what the Course says about the power of the mind, the origins of lack and how to let the belief in lack go. You will learn to recognize and let go of ego's ideas of separateness, specialness and competition. You will see how these false thoughts contribute to your experience of lack.

You will explore the contrast between the ego's idea of abundance and how the Holy Spirit knows abundance. You will experience processes that help you align your thinking with the abundance awareness of your true Self.

You will learn to recognize clearly when the detour into fear is occurring in your life, and how to return to your natural abundance awareness with the help of the Holy Spirit. Experiential processes will help you practice being aware of Love's Universal Presence in your life right now and let this Presence help you be aware of God's plan for your experience of greater peace and happiness.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: "Abundance Prayer" and "Letting Go of Ego's Substitute for Abundance." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "Abundance Is Accepting His Plan," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "Love Answers Every Call," and "Awareness of Love's Presence."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 908 Participants

In reading the Abundance Awareness course materials and listening to the CD's, I find that I am hearing and reading A Course in Miracles for what seems to be the first time. Before it was as if I couldn't internalize the material no matter how many times I read or listened to it. A marked difference. Now the Course belongs to me, much easier to read and understand.

I learned I can't go out and "get" abundance. I already have it. By letting go of my erroneous beliefs, I will stop manifesting problems. I gained more insight into how I block out the Holy Spirit with my thoughts. I liked the one-on-one sharing with my mind healing partner. Her receptive and nonjudgmental attitude allowed me to share more deeply.

It helped me develop a deeper trust in the Holy Spirit's presence and guidance within. This work with inner Guidance has shown me how deeply hidden is the thought I hold of guilt and unworthiness. The experiences have been wonderfully healing. It was a peeling back of beliefs and an assurance that Spirit, with great Love, will continue to teach His lesson that guilt is unreal and love is real until I accept it for myself.

909: Wellness Through Mind Healing Details

A Course in Miracles has a lot to say about the unconscious motivations for sickness and the role the mind plays in all the effects we experience in the body. In this ACIM Practitioner course, we will review and discuss 22 sections from the Text, Workbook for Students and Manual for Teachers as it relates to wellness through healing our minds.

We will look closely at what Jesus says about both the problem and the solution. We will see how all sickness, lack and dis-ease is really a defense against the truth. We will focus on the process of mind healing and practice uniting with Jesus in order to bring us the experience of wellness. With the Holy Spirit as our guide, we will give the body a new purpose by integrating wellness thinking into every part of our life.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: "Wellness Prayer — Uniting with Jesus" and "Bringing Perception of Sickness to Truth." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "Wellness Is Remembering My True Identity," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "My Brother, Our Minds Are One," and "Remembering My Inner Friend."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 909 Participants

This course brought about a focus that I had not experienced before by simply reading and studying A Course in Miracles. As each day goes by, I have become more aware of the Holy Spirit's presence and His guidance. I am increasing my reliance on the Holy Spirit and, to that end, I intend to take more of the ACIM Practictioner courses. This course took me by surprise by how it has impacted my day-to-day life.

I learned that wellness is remembering my true Self. Sickness is forgetting. All I need to do is go to the Holy Spirit for a new perception. I have all the power of God in me. I feel truly blessed to have these programs. They help me get so much more out of A Course in Miracles.

As a medically trained Physician Assistant and as a student of the Course, my search for truth relating to the body/mind was revealed to me in this program. I was gently led to see my brother not as sick or separate, to refuse the temptation to believe in illness, but to see my brother as well, whole and perfect love. I learned to correct my perception of the "illness" with the help of God's Love.

It helped me remember that wellness is of the mind, not the body. I can change my thinking to receive the benefits of wellness more and more each day. I have all the power of God in me.

910: Living in the World While Waking Up Details

This course delves into answering the questions, "How do I apply the principles of the Course to my everyday living? How do I apply this to my job, my family, my friends, to help me wake up to my real Self?" This ACIM Practitioner course will explore what Jesus has to say about how waking up is a process of being in the present moment to see ego thoughts with Holy Spirit and letting your mind be transformed to feel Love's Eternal Presence now.

With Holy Spirit, being aware of the ego's game plan of being in and extending pain and guilt. Seeing the barriers to Love for what they are.

Moving from exclusion to inclusion.

Recognizing ego's use for past and future.

Giving up the tiny mad idea of time.

Healing the past of all you ever thought it was by giving time to the Holy Spirit.

Joining now with Love's Eternal Presence.

Giving perception a new purpose by sharing Holy Spirit's purpose.

Recognizing the Holy Spirit in your brother.

Joining to bring Heaven to the Son of God.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: "Turning the Desert into God's Garden" and "Opening Up to and Living from Your Real Mind of Love." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "I Now Recognize Love's Eternal Presence," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "I Choose Peace," and "Witnessing Image Making with Holy Spirit."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 910 Participants

It helped me become more aware of Love's Presence and to allow Its guidance and comfort into my daily activities. It reinforced the importance of consistent practice to be still and listen. I learned that relaxing is the best way to let Love lead me. This gives me the sense of serenity and confidence to continue following Spirit. — M.D.M.

It helped me understand the proper use of denial. I am to deny my separation from God, not deny that I have experienced illusions. I am learning to look at these illusions (fear, anxiety, guilt) with Holy Spirit for clarification. I recognized that not seeing my brother's sinlessness is a disservice to me and him by perpetuating illusions about us both. It keeps him from seeing the opportunity to change his mind about himself as well as me.

I received a better understanding of several principles in A Course in Miracles. I learned that daily practice is very important. The most valuable insights were realizing I am not separate from anyone, judgment only hurts me, and God is always with me.

911: The Healing Journey Inward Details

A Course in Miracles encourages us to find our true Self within. It tells us our true Self is not outside. In fact, it tells us that there is no outside. It is only through the body's senses that we perceive an outside. In this course, you will practice taking Holy Spirit's hand to be gently led back to the truth and safety within. You will see where Jesus very clearly shows us how to go into the quiet resting place within, where we will remember we are still one with Love, our true Self.

You will practice: Going to the quiet resting place within your mind to experience the fullness of God's Love, peace and unity • From this resting place in your mind, practice recognizing the "outside world" as what it is • a projection that is coming from the split mind • Practice recognizing throughout the day whether you are perceiving from the split mind or the Christ Mind • Practice going within to receive your true Self's vision of forgiveness of your brother and yourself • Practice letting go of all forms of the belief in separation and returning to accepting the one life you share with God • Practice bringing the quiet with you to heal fear and distress.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: "The Peace and Love of God Is in Me Now" and "Returning from Fear to Love." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "I Go Within to Find God," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "I Feel God's Love and Light Within Me Now," and "Nothing Is 'Outside' Me."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 911 Participants

This course deepened my understanding of what it means to say, "There is nothing outside of myself." I now have a stronger desire to recognize my "split mind" and then turn to the Voice for God. I love myself by following Holy Spirit. To want nothing else is my goal now. It was a quantum leap in my spiritual growth.

This course brings great clarity to both the causes of resistance to going within and the profound healing and happiness that comes when I let Holy Spirit guide me within to the Home that is my Source.

I have greater clarity that the "messengers" who appear in my life (people, thoughts, experiences) are invited by me. Which thought system I am identifying with determines the identity of the appearance, real/unreal, love/illusion.

projections and to be able to grasp and accept that whatever I "see" in my outer world is only my own beliefs about myself. I learned at a deeper level that Inner Guidance will instantly correct my errors in perception the instant that I ask Him to.

912: Accepting Holy Spirit’s Help Details

The Holy Spirit is always there, waiting to extend Its healing change of mind. You receive this help when you stop the ego chatter and listen. You don't listen when you think you already know all the answers to your problems. It is only in choosing to accept the wisdom of the Holy Spirit that you lower the barriers to His Love that is always there for you.

You will practice: • Looking at which world you are treasuring, the ego's or Holy Spirit's • Stepping back from your perceptions and accepting God's gift — the Holy Spirit — to have all your perceptions corrected • Recognizing that all fault finding stems from the ego's belief in weakness, and being willing to let it go • Accepting the Holy Spirit's vision as your strength, instead of accepting belief in weakness and attack • Making room for the Holy Spirit by letting your state of mind be returned to a place of peace and happiness • Recognizing the choice you are making every minute between separation or oneness • Joining with the Holy Spirit's extension of the one Mind instead of joining with ego's projection of guilt onto an outside world. • Remembering the eternal now and letting it heal all belief in the past or future • Connecting with the Holy Spirit in all your brothers.

Materials included: Workbook, two guided meditations on CD 1. They are, "Inviting the Holy Spirit In," which leads you to experience the gentleness and inner strength of the Holy Spirit. The second meditation is, "Accepting & Giving the Eternal Now with Holy Spirit," which helps you remember to place your trust in the reality of the eternal now and not the past or future. CD 2 includes an audio version of the whole course, so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "I Hear Holy Spirit's Call" and two pocket size remember cards titled, "Which Call Is Worth More to Me — the Ego or the Holy Spirit?" and "There Is One Mind."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 912 Participants

I wanted to strengthen my connection with the Holy Spirit, and by the level of peace and joy I feel now, I believe this has happened. I was particularly helped by the meditation Inviting Holy Spirit In. It makes it much easier to let go of the ego chatter, still my mind and listen. — N.M.

I really appreciated the processes, especially the one where I practiced seeing everyone in my life the way the Holy Spirit sees them. I see how closely Jesus will work with me, if I am open and receptive to a changed perception.

One of the most important lessons I learned is to leave correction to the Holy Spirit. I have had a strong habit of doing it on my own and I have not liked the results. I feel my motivation is stronger to step back, remember peace, and let the Holy Spirit make my daily decisions.

This program strengthened my remembering to keep resigning myself (ego) as my teacher and to keep inviting the Holy Spirit to be my Teacher.

913: Two Categories — Real… Unreal Details

A Course in Miracles helps us understand that everything that is real is changeless and eternal. Everything that is real is the limitless, formless, Light of God and extends as one Light forever.
Everything that is real is an extension of Love and remains in the Mind of God eternally. In reality, there is no time; there is no space. There are no bodies in a world of separation. Reality is our unity in Heaven. In God we are one Light, with no distance between us. Separation is just an unreal dream — a delusion of false perception. False perception originates from the desire or choice to be separate from the oneness of God. If we want to see individuality we will see it, but what we see will be illusions, not reality.

So our only real choice is between the real and the unreal. There are only two categories of seeing, and the world we see will reflect our choice. In this course you will practice choosing Heaven instead of hell. You will learn to recognize illusions for what they are and let them go, not out of sacrifice, but in the happy laughter of release with the Holy Spirit. We will accept the strength that God offers us, knowing that Heaven is what we really want, and that with God we cannot fail.

Materials included: Workbook, two CD's. CD 1 is titled, "Accepting Your Inheritance," which helps you release ideas of being weak, vulnerable or could be harmed in any way by accepting God's gifts. Also included is, "Finding the Door to the Real World," which helps you return to the truth that you are safe in the Mind of God's Love. CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included is a laminated poster titled, "All Illusions of Differences Are Equally Unreal" and three remember cards titled, "Sharing the Resurrection of God's Son," "What Is the Source of This Thought?," and "True Forgiveness."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 913 Participants

I have only studied the course for a year, yet this course gave me the following insights: That the world of illusions and this physical world of form are merely created by our thoughts. I learned practical ways to apply the teachings of the Course in my life, such as how to go to Holy Spirit for guidance and how to recognize when a thought is from ego or Holy Spirit. Deep joy and love are to be found in Spirit, and all I need to do is to let go of my perceptions. When I see the ego at work, I now have the tools to see beyond it, to see through it to what is real, and what is not.

This course put into perspective years of ACIM study. It reminded me to ask the Holy Spirit for help and trust His guidance.

I see the importance of stopping and dropping what I am doing several times a day to experience the love, peace and joy of God. That will "prime the pump" so to speak and launch me into the great remembering on a consistent basis of what is Real. I gained a greater awareness of how important it is to remember that all my experiences are generated from the mind first.

914: The Power of Gentleness and Patience Details

In this course we will practice letting go of our grievances in order to return to our true Identity as Love, where gentleness and patience naturally reside. Remembering that there are just two states of mind, we will learn to ask ourselves, "Which state of mind am I in?" and "Am I thinking something other than Love is real?" and "What do I really want, to hold grievances or return to truth?"

Topics include: Seeing God in your brother • All attack is seen as merely meaningless • Gentleness and patience come with awakening to Truth • Seeing your brother's loveliness • Letting go of the past • Is my brother worthy of attack or love? • Remembering the separation never occurred • God's infinite patience is in you to receive and give • Why are gentleness and patience so powerful? • Feeling God's Love within you • The wish to see clearly brings the gift of Light • Allowing the characteristics of a teacher of God to be expressed through you.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 is titled, "You Are Love," which guides you to practice returning to the truth of your Identity as Love and nothing else. Also included is, "Love's Gentleness and Patience Holds Only to Truth," which helps you remember the Truth behind the "clouds" of belief in bodies and what bodies say and do. CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included is a laminated poster titled, "My Prayer of Accepting Love's Gentleness & Patience" and three remember cards titled, "Right Now, What Am I?," "I Am as Love Created Me," and "God's Perfection Is All I Want to See."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 914 Participants

This course is well laid out so I can really get it. I have also learned so much from the discussions and sharing. I am now more mindful of little grievances that come up and have the opportunity to heal them by taking them to Holy Spirit. The CD's are great to help me to remember to see through Holy Spirit's eyes.

Though I think I know, I am reminded at ever-deepening levels that I have been confused. I have listened to and been led by the ego. I am reminded to be gentle and patient with myself, and the Truth is right here again: That I am only Love, my brother is only Love and there is no harm.

The most valuable thing I learned in this course is that what I see in others is really a part of me that I am seeing. I learned to look at forgiveness as "for giving," meaning that I need to give my love to someone for healing to take place.

915: Being a Messenger of Innocence and Unity Details

In this world we don't often think that our purpose for being here is to be a messenger of innocence and unity. Many times we get side tracked with worldly purposes and forget the purpose God gave us. Our minds become engaged with what is not there. Our split minds limit our awareness to bodies and make what bodies say and do real. To the separated mind, it seems quite proper to judge everyone and everything in this world and take defensive steps to protect against an outside foe.

Topics include: Guilt causes the hallucination • Holy Spirit ends the hallucination • The ego is afraid of seeing innocence • Finding the place of truth in our brothers • In quiet I find the truth • Healing by bringing the quiet with me • Peace departs by thinking I know • I can choose peace today • Forgiveness looks with quiet eyes and sees the truth • What am I sharing, separation or oneness? • I am a messenger of truth • Accepting the power to lift the veil of falsehood • We return to Heaven together.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. The first meditation in CD 1 is "Letting Innocence & Unity Transform My Life." The second meditation is titled, "Bringing Peace and Quiet to Every Distress," which helps you find the place of truth behind every concern and worry. CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included is a laminated poster titled, "Finding My Brother's Innocence and Unity" and two pocket-size remember cards titled, "Today I Quiet My Mind & Listen," and "I Give Welcome to the Truth."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

Comments from Course 915 Participants

This course stimulated big motivation to make more room for Holy Spirit in my daily life. In practicing remembering peace frequently, I will build an ever-ready awareness of peace that will help me in any circumstance. I am grateful now that I am aware of the ego's chatter in my mind and know that I am not stuck with it. I can always give it to the Holy Spirit and let it go.

I really saw how the whole ego thought system is based on guilt and how deep the layers are. Contrary to the ego's belief, innocence is strength; guilt is weakness. Each time I become aware of guilt, I can turn it over to the Holy Spirit to be healed. It is important to be patient with the process.

This course was so gentle and yet its message was so powerful! In every moment and in every thought I am a messenger — the choice is, do I want to spread the ego's message of pain, harm and guilt, or do I want to be a messenger of innocence, love and unity? I loved the “Letting Innocence & Unity Transform My Life” meditation. What a great way to start the day. I really like that I can listen to it while I am getting ready in the morning or as I am driving to work.

916: Teacher of God Details

The purpose of A Course in Miracles is to teach us how to be miracle workers — teachers of God. As we continue to delve deeper into the thought system of A Course in Miracles and apply its principles, the false ideas of the ego gradually are seen as what they are — meaningless. As we gradually learn to think the thoughts that come from Holy Spirit, our minds are changed. Who we think we are is changed. Who we think our brothers are is changed. We are more able to see through the clouds of the ego's hallucination. We recognize more and more that we are eternal Spirit.

As we recognize the truth of oneness more and more, we just naturally become a part of the Atonement. We just naturally join the Holy Spirit's plan that leads to the great awakening. It becomes effortless because we are not trying to do it on our own. We know our role is to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit, not lead. In this course we will look closely at what it takes to be a teacher of God and practice identifying with and extending the characteristics of a teacher of God. We accept the healing we so deeply desire to give and receive.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. The meditations on CD 1 are titled, ”A Teacher of God Accepts We are One Self,” which reinforces a key element to teaching what we need to learn and letting go of the illusion of separation. The second meditation is, “Accepting the Teacher of God in Me” which is helpful to reinforce your ability to serve the Holy Spirit with clarity, purity and the enthusiasm of your true Self as a teacher of God. CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled “I Am Open to God’s Perfect Plan” and two pocket size remember cards titled “I See with the Eyes of Christ Today,” and “I Teach We Are One Self.”

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

How do we break the destructive habit of holding on to the belief in a past and future as if it were real?

How do we remember we are in Heaven?

What are the benefits of remembering that we are in the Kingdom of Heaven now?

We will also experience many processes which will help us practice handing over all our false perceptions to the Holy Spirit so that the recognition that we are in Heaven now can return to our awareness.

We have tried again and again to replace our true Identity with illusions of separation. We are ready to accept the simplicity of salvation. We are ready to accept the eternal Truth. We are in Heaven now. We never left. The Son of God is not guilty. The Son of God is innocent because he is still Love, as God created Him. He is still in Heaven now. The insane wish to be somewhere else is melting and the time of the great awakening to the eternal Truth is now. We are ready to accept and extend this eternal truth.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations titled, "Bridge of Return" and "Lucid Dreaming with Holy Spirit." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "I Am in Heaven Now," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "I Receive and Extend the Peace of Heaven," and "Time Is Over."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

918: The Power of Prayer and Meditation Details

Included with this course is the 22 page booklet, The Song of Prayer, which came from Jesus as an extension of the principles of A Course in Miracles. In The Song of Prayer, Jesus reveals the secret of true prayer as compared to praying for specific forms we perceive as outside ourselves, which is the prayer of the ego.

In this course we will explore The Song of Prayer in depth, putting these sacred principles into practice in our daily lives. We will walk step-by-step through "The Ladder of Prayer" and understand how we can move up the ladder through the early stages to the highest form of prayer. We will also explore what Jesus says about "Praying for others," and how to pray for others in a way most truly helpful. We will learn the only thing we should ever ask when help is needed for our brother.

We will learn about: How to achieve self-forgiveness for making the error real, seeking out guilt and thus overlooking Love. • How forgiveness, freedom and the happy dream are connected. • What the remedy is for all illusions we think we see. • How forgiveness is prayer's ally, lifting us up past the veil to the gates of Heaven. • Sharing one goal of the return to God and how this accelerates our ascent through the lessons the Holy Spirit provides.

We will look at the cause of sickness and the source of all true and lasting healing. We will join in meditation and practice accepting the holy instant. We will practice giving the holy instant to our brothers, making our life a meditation of joining and healing.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD's. CD 1 includes two guided meditations titled, "True Prayer" and "Prayer, Forgiveness and Healing." CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, "Rising Up the Ladder of Prayer," and two pocket size remember cards titled, "What Is the Will of God?" and "Brother, I Pray to the Christ in You."

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

919: Serving God’s Plan of Awakening Details

In A Course in Miracles, Jesus wants us to fully understand God’s plan of awakening and the opportunities we have for healing ourselves and our brother as we return Home. He is very helpful in sharing God’s plan, our specific part in it and how urgent it is to fulfill it. We would not plan on our own, for this only makes our fears and defenses bigger. We learn to ask ourselves, “What is this for? Is it for serving God’s plan or am I trying to plan for my safety on my own?” Planning on our own only keeps us chained to our fearful dream.

We will learn about: Who are we and what is our function? • How to look beyond error to the Truth. • When we are serving God’s Plan and when we are serving ego’s plan. • We accept God’s plan as we accept our true Self. • The mighty purpose we have to fulfill. • Each has a special function in the undoing of the dream of separation. • Our part in God’s plan is to be happy. • We serve God’s plan as we listen to the Voice that God has given us. • Blending with the Thoughts of the Holy Spirit leads us to let go of our defenses against God. • Rendering unto God the things that are God’s. • The healing of God’s Son is all the world is for.

In this course we will move from the perspective of “striving to get” to opening to serve only God’s plan. Serving God’s plan fills us with a deep sense of contentment, inner joy and happiness. We are in peace and the knowledge that we can truly make a difference — that we are doing our part in the salvation of the world. What could be more important than this? It becomes our one goal and one that we accomplish with the help of Heaven. Now we are unafraid and know that we will never lose our way again.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD’s. CD 1 includes four guided meditations: “I Accept My Role in God’s Plan,” “God’s Plan Sees Past Bodies to the Truth,” “Blending with the Holy Spirit’s Thoughts” and “Fulfilling the Plan Assigned to You.” CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, “Serving God’s Plan,” and two pocket size remember cards titled, “I Accept My Part in God’s Plan” and “Right now, which plan am I serving?”

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

920: Being a Miracle Worker Details

In this course we will have the opportunity to join in the goal of working miracles. Together we will practice inviting, accepting and extending the truth that God’s one Son is changeless. We will practice seeing past differences to the untied Love that is the truth about every brother.

As miracle workers in training, we will practice extending our open hands to every brother and help them walk along the road with us. We will practice placing our trust in God and know that we all are surrounded by the Love of God. We will join with Jesus to be a messenger of God. We will not decide anything on our own, but be directed by the Holy Spirit by developing the constant habit of joining with the peace of God.

We will work in depth with pages 1-16 of the Manual for Teachers, applying what we are learning as we go. We will take each characteristic of God’s teachers and assimilate trust, honesty, tolerance, gentleness, joy, defenselessness, generosity, patience, faithfulness and open-mindedness into our beingness. We will practice these characteristics until being a miracle worker becomes as natural as melting snow on a warm spring day.

We will embody these characteristics into every part of our “life” as we remember there is no order of difficulty in miracles. We will see how this beingness lifts us up, like the wings of a butterfly, to raise us up above the battleground of individuality and differences. As miracle workers, we will join with our true function of healing as our open mind points the way to the one united truth of universal Love. We will practice embodying what we have always been in truth.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD’s. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: “The Power to Work Miracles Belongs to You” and “A Miracle Worker Sees Only Wholeness.” CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, “Accepting Love as My Natural State,” and two pocket size remember cards titled, “Miracle Workers Extend Love’s Being” and “I Am a Miracle Worker in Training.”

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

921: ACIM Practitioner, Part I Details

As teachers of God in training we will go in-depth into understanding the core basis behind all true healing, which involves the ability to recognize the mind as the decision maker of every experience. We will see what provides the release from guilt and sickness and allows the memory of God to return.

We will also go deeper into the function of all teachers of God, which is to represent another choice — the alternative to the ego’s voice. We invite each brother to seek for God’s Voice to let illusions be brought to the truth.

We will practice: Receiving the Holy Spirit’s gifts and giving them equally to all. • Letting our minds be healed by allowing all illusions be seen without distinctions. • Giving up the idea of judging anything on our own because we recognize it is impossible. • Seeing only innocence because we remember what God created cannot change, which brings us peace. • Remembering we are not a body or even in a body • we are limitless and reflect only the Love of God. • Welcoming peace and offering peace to everyone, which turns hell into Heaven.

"Nothing external alters, but everything internal now reflects only the Love of God." (M-12.2:2) We will advance in our profession as teachers of God as we use the body for the Holy Spirit’s purposes and remember that, "Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God’s teachers." (M-12.6:6) We will pay particular attention to, "How should the teacher of God spend his day?" and how to apply this in our lives.

Prerequisite: Three 900-series courses.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD’s. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: “Healing Is My Function” and “Relinquishing Judgment Brings Peace.” CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, “Principles of ACIM Practitioners,” and two pocket size remember cards titled, “Judgment by Me Is Impossible” and “I Am Choosing My Experience.”

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

922: ACIM Practitioner, Part II Details

In our ongoing training we will look at the way Jesus tells us to deal with magic thoughts and the kinds of help the teacher of God gives to those who need his aid. We will practice consistently opening to the Holy Spirit with every hint of irritation so we cease confusing illusion with truth. This consistent practice heals depression and brings escape from fear.

We will practice: The forgiveness that goes with accepting God’s peace, which brings with it a tranquil mind and a loving, grateful heart. • Letting our words be chosen for us by the Holy Spirit instead of deciding on our own. • Overlooking the ego mind and body in ourselves and others, which leaves a clean and open space for the Holy Spirit’s correction of mistakes and healing all perception. • Remembering there is only one Son and that Jesus is with us because we are one. • Letting go of the "barriers to direct experience of the Holy Spirit, Whose Presence is always There and Whose Voice is available but for the hearing.” (M-25.2:5) We are seeing that in the Holy Spirit’s service, the direct experience of His Presence is only natural; there is no specialness in this. • Joining with others instead of separating. “And it is this that enables others to leave the world with them. Alone they are nothing. But in their joining is the Power of God.” (M-26.1:8-9)

Joined together we have the means to awaken from dreams of separation. As we deepen the practice, “Through you is ushered in a world unseen, unheard, yet truly there.” (M-29.1:8:5)

Prerequisites: Three 900-series courses plus 921.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD’s. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: “Healing by Seeing Your ‘Life’ as a Movie” and “Joining Holy Spirit’s Pathway of Light.” CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, “Accepting Your Role,” and two pocket size remember cards titled, “I no longer stand apart from God” and “I am Eternal Spirit.”

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

923: ACIM Practitioner, Part III Details

The booklet, Psychotherapy, Purpose, Process and Practice, which came from Jesus as an extension of the principles of A Course in Miracles, is included in this course.

Psycho means “of the mind” and therapy means healing. Since we are only mind and not a body, it is only our minds that can be healed. A mind closed to our one Identity as Love is closed to the truth. All true healing is essentially opening the mind to the truth, or our Reality in God. This can only be done through the Holy Spirit, Who is the only therapist. With this in mind, this course will be devoted to learning from the Holy Spirit the true cause of all fear and how to evaluate these fears correctly. “What higher goal could there be for anyone than to learn to call upon God and hear His Answer?” (P-Intro.2:2) We will learn to join together with the Holy Spirit to forgive our illusions and let go of attack that comes with believing in false self-concepts.

We will welcome the return to sanity, which is what psychotherapy really is. “God comes to those who would restore His world, for they have found the way to call to Him. If any two are joined, He must be there.” (P-II.6:4-5)

Topics covered: • Understanding the steps involved in psychotherapy as the patient heals. • Recognizing all forms of sickness or unforgiveness for what they are and inviting the healing touch of forgiveness to take its place. • The ideal patient-therapist relationship and the true aim of all therapy.

Prerequisites: Three 900-series courses plus courses 921 and 922.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD’s. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: “Changing Your Mind About the Reality of Illusions” and “True Psychotherapy Is Forgiveness.” CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, “Accepting Holy Spirit’s Psychotherapy,” and two pocket size remember cards titled, “My Brother’s Need Is Mine” and “This ‘self’ image I made,...”

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

924: ACIM Practitioner, Part IV Details

As we continue deepening our practice, we will learn by experience the meaning of, “A brother seeking aid can bring us gifts beyond the heights perceived in any dream.” (P-II.V.5:1)

We will see that we awaken as we join with our brother in the one goal of healing our minds of our belief in separation, and therefore guilt. As we help our brother forgive himself, we are deepening our own forgiveness process.

We will explore healing that includes both casual encounters and the more formal settings of joining in ACIM groups or joining with another with the Holy Spirit as the Guide. With this one goal, the healing of everyone involved is assured.

We will practice applying the important message Jesus gives us: “Healing occurs as a patient begins to hear the dirge he sings, and questions its validity. Until he hears it, he cannot understand that it is he who sings it to himself. To hear it is the first step in recovery. To question it must then become his choice.” (P-II.5:1) We will look closely at the stages of healing and how important it is not to miss one step.

We will experience ACIM based counseling — the healing of our minds with the Holy Spirit as the psychotherapist. We will practice being a clear channel of the Holy Spirit and let our own minds be healed. We will also apply all we are learning in the Psychotherapy booklet to being a Mind Healing Partner with the 900-series courses and facilitating weekly ACIM groups in your community.

Materials included: Workbook and two CD’s. CD 1 includes two guided meditations: “The Simplicity of Healing, Joined with Our Brother” and “Joining to Let Christ Enter.” CD 2 is an audio version of the complete ACIM Practitioner Course so you can further reinforce what you are learning. Also included in this course is a laminated poster titled, “Psychotherapy Is Forgiveness,” and two pocket size remember cards titled, “My brother, our holy interaction is our salvation,” and “A Healed Healer Understands:...”

Required text:A Course in Miracles, Second or Third Edition, (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace).

When you take each course with a Mind Healing Partner, you will be certified as a
Mind Healing Partner for others who are led to join in awakening through the ACIM
Practitioner training.

Read the descriptions, ask the Holy Spirit if it would be helpful for you to
work with a Mind Healing Partner, and become an ACIM Practitioner as you join
with your brother in awakening to the truth.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Who are these ACIM Practitioner courses for?

These courses are for students of A Course in Miracles who want to bring
their thoughts into alignment with the Holy Spirit and integrate the spiritual
psychology of A Course in Miracles into their lives. Each course is set up
as a mutual teaching-learning situation with a Certified Mind Healing Partner or
group. Your interactions with your mind healing partner or the others in your group
help you further expand and integrate what you are learning into your daily life.
Together you can go deeper and awaken faster than trying to learn it alone.

If you are an ACIM study group leader, these materials can add a new dimension to
your group learning experience.

What is included with each course?

Each course includes:

Guided meditations, experiential processes and an audio version of the entire ACIM Practitioner
course on two CD’s.

A study guide which leads you through passages in ACIM and processes to help you apply what you are learning in your life.

Two laminated remember cards and a laminated poster to help you reinforce what you are learning.

Binder conveniently organized with all course materials.

If you choose to work with a certified Mind Healing Partner, you also receive certification as
an ACIM Practitioner Mind Healing Partner.

Why work with a Certified Mind Healing Partner?

Each ACIM Practitioner course is set up as a mutual teaching-learning situation. It does not require that one partner be more experienced or advanced with his understanding of A Course in Miracles than the other, although this may be the case. It does require a willingness to join together to learn from and with each other as you explore the material together.

By joining with a partner or group, you can explore together the ACIM principles on the chosen subject using the guidance provided by the Study Program materials. Into this shared interest you invite the Holy Spirit to enter as your Teacher. Through your willingness and openness, the Holy Spirit becomes the Interpreter in your minds to provide a bridge of understanding that serves the specific needs of both you and your partner or group.

Each course includes experiential processes which help you relate the material being presented to your personal experiences and circumstances in life. Some of these processes require one partner to guide the other. Because a Certified Mind Healing Partner has already experienced the course and understands the material and processes in it, he or she can serve as a guide through the Study Program experience.

A Course in Miracles encourages us to "teach what we need to learn." It is through this process of giving that we learn what we really have so that our learning becomes strengthened and applied to more and more aspects of our lives.

How does “mind healing through partnering” work?

When you enroll in an ACIM Practitioner course, you will be sent the materials and assigned a Certified Mind Healing Partner if you have not selected one already. The study material guides you to look at selected passages in A Course in Miracles (second or third edition required) and includes commentary and processes to aid in understanding the readings. You are encouraged to take notes and journal on what you are learning and how you can apply it in your life. Periodically you meet with your mind healing partner (in person or by phone) to share what you are learning with each other.

Upon completion of the course, your mind healing partner will send you confirmation that you are certified as a mind healing partner for that course. Once you have completed the course, you may want to reinforce what you have learned by joining with others who want to expand their understanding of A Course in Miracles. As a certified mind healing partner, you receive $70 from Pathways of Light when your healing partner completes the course and you notify the office of his or her certification.

Pathways of Light assists you with connecting with other healing partners by providing, at nominal cost, descriptive brochures about each course that you are certified for. You may give these brochures to friends with whom you would like to share and learn. Or you may want to reach out to a larger community to serve in the "great awakening" the A Course in Miracles says is so important to the healing of our world.

What does ACIM say about joining together for learning purposes?

These ACIM Practitioner courses are set up as mutual teaching-learning situations, reflecting the following idea from A Course in Miracles, Manual for Teachers: “God's Teacher speaks to any two who join together for learning purposes. The relationship is holy because of that purpose, and God has promised to send His Spirit into any holy relationship. In the teaching-learning situation, each one learns that giving and receiving are the same.…
Those who would learn the same course share one interest and one goal. And thus he who was the learner becomes a teacher of God himself, for he has made the one decision that gave his teacher to him. He has seen in another person the same interests as his own.” (A Course in Miracles, Manual for Teachers — 2.5:3-5, 7-9)

Many students of A Course in Miracles have found that while they can gain much by studying it on their own, the learning experience is greatly enriched when it is shared with others who become both their teachers and fellow learners. These ACIM Practitioner courses provide a format for joining with a partner or in a group to facilitate this shared teaching-learning process.

Can I use these courses as guides for my ACIM study group?

Yes. These materials guide you to many passages in A Course in Miracles that provide insight and understanding of the Course's view on the specific subject of the each ACIM Practitioner course. Using these materials as a guide for group discussion and study is a powerful way to gain a comprehensive understanding of Course principles and apply them more effectively in your daily life. Group sharing of the experiential processes enriches the experience.

It is helpful for each participant in the group to have their own ACIM Practitioner course in which they can take notes from the processes and discussion, as well as use the CD's, poster and reminder cards to help reinforce what they are learning.

Can I work with these courses on my own?

Yes. Whether you work with a Certified Mind Healing Partner or not, there is great mind-healing benefit in doing the experiential processes and studying the course material with the references from A Course in Miracles. You will not receive certification as a Mind Healing Partner if you choose this option.

If at any time you decide to become a Certified Mind Healing Partner, send your registration with $70 to Pathways of Light. You will be assigned a Mind Healing Partner to work with, or you may select your preferred Mind Healing Partner. Click here for a list of available Certified Mind Healing Partners.

What is a Certified ACIM Practitioner?

A Certified ACIM Practitioner has completed all 24 of the ACIM Practitioner courses with a Mind Healing Partner. With this designation, you are assured that your Mind Healing Partner has dedicated extensive time and attention to understanding and applying the principles of A Course in Miracles.

I am interested in both Minister Training and ACIM Practitioner training. Which should I do first?

Most people take the Minister Training first. This training focuses on strengthening your connection with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and helps you remove the blocks to the awareness of Love's Presence, as well as training you to facilitate most of the minister training courses. In addition it also leads to ordination which qualifies you to officiate weddings.

After your ordination, you are eligible to take the Relationship Enhancement Counselor Training and for free training to lead ACIM study groups.

Click here for more information about the Minister Training courses and frequently asked questions.

The ACIM Practitioner training offers in-depth study of key principles of A Course in Miracles with many experiential exercises plus guided meditations, a laminated poster and laminated reminder cards to use to help you apply these principles in your daily life.
It does not lead to ordination. Minister Training is not required to take any of the ACIM Practitioner courses.

Can I participate in an ACIM Practitioner course if I live outside the USA?

Yes. We have found that sharing with a Mind Healing Partner using Internet voice communication such as Skype or an Instant Messenger service is very effective. There are several Certified Mind Healing Partners who are available to serve as an online partner. Click here for a list of available Certified Mind Healing Partners.

How do I know if I have the second or third edition of ACIM?

The inside cover page of your book should say Second or Third Edition. The second and third editions include the Preface and Clarification of Terms and have a number for each chapter, section, paragraph and sentence. The Third Edition includes the supplements to ACIM: Song of Prayer and Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice.
If you do not have either of these editions, click here to purchase the Third Edition from our online store.

Are Pathways of Light programs for you?

The following statements may resonate with you: I have a great desire to experience more peace and joy in my life. I am willing to look at my limited thinking and let myself be led to the awareness of my True Self. I know that when I share what I am learning with others, I strengthen it in myself. I want to teach what I need to learn. I feel drawn to Pathways of Light courses by my Inner Guidance.

What does Gary Renard have to say about Pathways of Light?

Gary Renard, author of The Disappearance of the Universe and Your Immortal Reality, shares his experience of Pathways of Light:

It was my pleasure to visit Pathways of Light for the third year in a row to present and record a workshop for a DVD. Pathways is an excellent spiritual teaching organization that's run by Reverends Robert and Mary Stoelting, who have been there since the early 1990s. Robert and Mary have been involved in the spiritual movement however, since the 1960s.
Their hearts and minds are definitely in the right place.

One of the reasons I love Pathways of Light is that they’re into empowering people to hear the Holy Spirit’s Voice for themselves. They’re not into telling people what to do; they’re into training people to receive their own Guidance.
I’m very grateful that there are wonderful teachers such as Robert and Mary who recognize that no teacher is superior to the students, except in illusions.

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